Tooling Framework for Instantiating Natural Language Querying System
Summary: Tooling framework to instantiate NLQ systems across heterogeneous data stores, formats, and ontologies; minimizes human configuration, addressing ATHENA's gaps. Demonstrated in the medical domain, showing reusable tooling for rapid NLIDB deployment across diverse sources. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Manasa Jammi (IBM)
- 2. Jaydeep Sen (IBM)
- 3. Ashish Mittal (IBM)
- 4. Sagar Verma (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi)
- 5. Vardaan Pahuja (University of Montreal)
- 6. Rema Ananthanarayanan (IBM)
- 7. Pranay Lohia (IBM)
- 8. Hima Karanam (IBM)
- 9. Diptikalyan Saha (IBM)
- 10. Karthik Sankaranarayanan (IBM)
BibTeX Citation
@article{jammi_vldb18,
title = {{Tooling Framework for Instantiating Natural Language Querying System}},
author = {Jammi, Manasa and Sen, Jaydeep and Mittal, Ashish and Verma, Sagar and Pahuja, Vardaan and Ananthanarayanan, Rema and Lohia, Pranay and Karanam, Hima and Saha, Diptikalyan and Sankaranarayanan, Karthik},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '18},
doi = {10.14778/3229863.3236248},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3229863.3236248},
year = {2018}
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| 5,078 | State of the Art and Open Challenges in Natural Language Interfaces to Data | 2020 | SIGMOD | 6.3728705e-05 |
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| 459 | ATHENA: An Ontology-Driven System for Natural Language Querying over Relational Data Stores | 2016 | VLDB | 0.00018101318 |
| 555 | NaLIR: An Interactive Natural Language Interface for Querying Relational Databases | 2014 | SIGMOD | 0.00016568053 |
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